The Society has responded to the first consultation on a masterplan for the St Philip’s Marsh area.
St Philip’s Marsh is the largest part of the Bristol Temple Quarter Development Framework area. It is currently mainly industrial and commercial, but it is one of the few remaining areas in Bristol that could be used to provide a significant amount of new housing.
This consultation summarised some planning constraints and opportunities in the area, and asked for views on the location of local centres, open spaces and movement.
We suggested:
- additional pedestrian connections across the barriers of the waterways and railway line to make the area more permeable
- a more nuanced approach to land-use zoning
- a new large central park
- a station in the centre of St Philips Marsh, making use of the reserve railway line which runs through the Marsh, which would provide easy access to the rail network.
We asked how the transformation from the current spatial arrangement of industrial sites and uses to the future configuration will be achieved, and what sorts of employment uses will be pushed out to other areas.
We look forward to the two further rounds of consultation that are planned before the end of 2025, which will reveal a fuller picture of the draft masterplan – the strategic approach and how it will be delivered.
Alan Morris